Accession number
PML 16706.1
Creator
Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
Object title
Incipit praefatio Cicironis in librum topicorum.
Published
[Milan] : [Antonius Zarotus, for Marco Roma et socii], [approximately 1472]
Description
[20] leaves ; 25.5 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910.
Notes
Title from caption, leaf [1]/2r: Incipit Præfatio Cicironis [sic] In Librum Topicorum.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Zarotus's type 2:111R.
Collation: [1-2⁸ 3⁴]: 20 leaves.
Paper format: Median quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 24.1 x 16.4 cm.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Zarotus's type 2:111R.
Collation: [1-2⁸ 3⁴]: 20 leaves.
Paper format: Median quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 24.1 x 16.4 cm.
Binding
18th-century English gilt-tooled black morocco over paper boards (25.5 x 17.5 cm), sewn on 6 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Heavy contemporary marginal notations throughout (faded, but partially visible under UV, with staining). Contemporary manuscript alpha-numeric quire signatures.
Provenance
Unidentified inscriptions (abraded, partially visible under UV): "[Greek] Iste liber est de Hyer[????]," 15th/16th century (leaf [1]/1r of Topica); Charles Spencer (1674-1722), 3rd Earl of Sunderland, shelf mark: C 5: 8 (front endleaf 1 verso), through inheritance to: John Winston Spencer-Churchill (1822-1883), 7th Duke of Marlborough; Bibliotheca Sunderlandia sale, Puttick & Simpson, part II, 17 April 1882, lot 2917 (as a single edition with the Partitiones) purchased by Quaritch: Sunderland Library Blenheim Palace bookplate, purchased April 1882 (front pastedown); Bernard Quaritch, General Catalogue (1887), no. 18600 for £12.12s and Illustrated Catalogue, cat. 268 (1908), no. 667 for £14.14 (amonst other catalogues); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from Giuseppe Martini, April 1910.
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